Mr. Dong moved swiftly. On the third day after Zhou Quan submitted the first draft of the National Security Law,
Hong Kong Island's highest authorities issued an official document with remarkable efficiency, bypassing the still-unformed Legislative Bureau and placing the law on the agenda.
The National Security Law concerned the stability of Hong Kong Island and even the entire Motherland. Naturally, the senior leaders understood the importance of pressing ahead while momentum was strong.
If the Legislative Council were allowed to debate and study it, there was no telling how many complications might arise before the law could be fully implemented.
While Hong Kong Island's Legislative Council had yet to be formally established, and before those deeply concealed people with ill intentions could react,
settling the National Security Law once and for all was the most appropriate and convenient choice.
The decision by Mr. Dong and the leaders above him on Hong Kong Island immediately caused an uproar among those in the Hong Kong Government who harbored ulterior loyalties.
The foreign forces backing them were instantly dumbfounded.
The foreign authorities had returned sovereignty over Hong Kong Island to the Motherland only because of its growing strength.
Behind the scenes, how could those foreigners possibly have accepted that willingly?
Given a suitable opportunity, those foreigners would certainly refuse to sit idle. They would sow discord between Hong Kong Island and the Motherland, and even do everything possible to support Hong Kong Island's independence.
Turning Hong Kong Island into another Taiwan was precisely what those foreigners most wanted to see.
Yet now, placing the National Security Law on the agenda undoubtedly put a complete end to the foreign authorities' underhanded schemes.
Sovereignty over Hong Kong Island now belonged to the Motherland. If the foreigners continued stirring up trouble in secret and supporting